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NCIA is now accepting nominations for eligible candidates to run for its board of directors through April 21, 2017. As the cannabis industry’s only national trade association, the National Cannabis Industry Association is a nonprofit organization run for and by its members, so we hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to get involved in…

April 26. 2012 1:54PM A California company is planning to open what it’s billing as six medical marijuana “superstores” in New Jersey, with the first opening sometime this summer.

The first offshoot of a Colorado Springs medical marijuana advocacy organization plans to address one of the largest demographics of the Pikes Peak region: military veterans. “It really is a for-veterans, by-veterans type organization,” said Mark Slaugh, membership director of the nonprofit Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council

After a series of delays, a Montclair medical marijuana dispensary this week became the first in New Jersey to get approval to start legally growing the cannabis plant. THINKSTOCKSTAFF PHOTO BY ADAM ANIK Greenleaf Compassion Center has received a state permit to legally grow medicinal marijuana. But the nonprofit still needs state approval to open its dispensary at 395 Bloomfield Ave.

Medical marijuana benefits provider shutting down The Coloradoan A nonprofit that offers benefits for medical marijuana patients, the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America, is closing down. The founder said the decision was due to “extenuating factors and a lack of support within the medical marijuana …

The Massachusetts’ legislature’s Committee On Public Health held a hearing yesterday to evaluate a possible ballot question that would legalize marijuana for “patients with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis” who have a doctor’s prescription for it, according to an article on MyFox Boston . The ballot question, which Attorney General Martha Coakley has already certified to appear on the ballot, also “calls for the state to register up to 35 nonprofit medical treatment centers around the state to distribute the marijuana.” 15 states and Washington, D.C. already allow medical marijuana to varying degrees , but is it right for Massachusetts? Vote in our poll and leave a comment with your take on the situation: